Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:55:16 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>,
	Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release 
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> These download counts would be completely random anyway.  Most people get
>> their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor.
>
> Sure, but the download counts just following a new release would give us
> a reading on enthusiastic real users --- ie, people who are interested
> enough to download a new major release as soon as it's available.
>
> However, this is probably moot given the point that we won't get
> cooperation from the larger mirror sites.

Why not add something like what pine does?  when you start up a new 
release of pine, the first time, there is an option to send an email 
letting them count # of users ... its totally optional ...

Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it 
prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email 
letting us know its being used ... ?

Or something like that ... something both visible and that defaults to 
'opt-out', not opt-in ...

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